SSES Bias Correction For Viirs SST

[mshatley]

Good Afternoon,

I've been asked if SST data we process through l2gen has had SSES Bias correction applied during processing. In the output of l2gen processing I'm seeing where we load the SSES Table(Loading SSES table from ...) and this file has a bias variable contained within. I've looked at the l2gen processing options and am not seeing a way to enable/disable SSES Bias Correction.

Can you confirm SSES Bias Correction is being applied to SST data during processing by default? I just want to make sure I'm not passing along wrong information.

Thanks!

[OB.DAACx - SeanBailey]

There is no bias correction applied, nor is there any way to enable such a correction.  The SSES bias datasets are used to report the bias on the per-pixel basis in the bias_sst product.

Sean